Example sentences of "they [verb] a [adj] [noun] to play " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience of wartime administration persuaded Labour leaders that they had a responsible role to play in a new economic system which had successfully revealed the inadequacies of laissez faire capitalism , while among the working-class electorate a sense of the potential of a new social order in the postwar period took root . |
| 2 | ‘ They have a crucial role to play , ’ he points out . |
| 3 | They have a major part to play in helping clients get their rights from other social services . |
| 4 | Just as banks have a vested interest in the growth of their main customers , they have a clear role to play in limiting the damage that recession can bring especially where the failure of a leading company will affect many of their other customers . |
| 5 | Be that as it may , the intuitive reality of such structures is borne out also by the fact that generations of language teachers have recognized that they have a leading role to play in the initial stages of learning , because of what I have called their valency or combining power . |